<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:47 PM, spike </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Many of those reading this may live to experience what happens when a nation<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>lives on borrowed money for a long time. </blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Everybody reading this already knows right now what it's like to live</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">in a nation that </div>lives on borrowed money for a long time<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">. T</div>he government of the USA has been in debt every year since 1835, and every single president since Herbert Hoover has <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">left office with more debt than when he started his presidency. And yet here we are still extraordinarily prosperous compared with most of the world. </div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark </font></div></div>
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